Hi Mireth — Thanks! It worked! Thank you for the upgrade discount and for a great utility [NetShred X]. I use it, literally, every day of the week.

Dave B.

I will download NetShred X immediately and THANKS VERY MUCH for the coupon! You do a lot of good for a lot of people, so please don’t ever forget that! There are a lot of Human Rights Activists and International Journalists that use Macs that would not be enjoying their freedom today if it wasn’t for you! 🙂

Byron S.

Thanks so much- you guys are the best at support of any software maker I’ve ever dealt with!

mg

[NetShred X]Thank you so very much for all your kindness and attention with this matter. I look forward to perhaps being able to still purchase items from your company. You have shown me honesty and I appreciate all you have done for me. Keep me in mind should you have anything new for a windows user like me. Once more I thank you so very much!

[MacVCD] You sell a great product and it was great doing business with you.

sr

Thank you very much for your fast reply and customer-friendly handling of my problem!

rt

Thank you very much. I will recommend your company to others!

William D.

[NetShred X] You have the very best, most effective technology software.

Ed W, A longtime & greatly satisfied customer

[Music Man] Thanks a LOT for your help and good service ! In the meantime I wrote you I’ve received my registration information, so it’s all right…Your software is very good and as I know until now, the only one (on MAC OSX) which is simple, powerfull, best audio quality and versatile conversion formats, able to be compared with the top-best in Windows OS, like Audiograbber, WinDac or EAC.

Michel M.

I am highly impressed with your customer service – …you replied to my query within fifteen minutes, and I had … Netshred up and running soon after.
I admit that I viewed the complimentary comments down the left hand side of the support page of your site with a bit of scepticism, but now I am another one of your admirers – an excellent product and a customer service to match.

Thanks. It worked great. I will be buying my copy of Music Man today. I am very impressed with your company’s product and customer support.

M. McCormick

Let me congratulate you on getting this program right! I have tried several other options (free and not free) and keep coming back to MacVCD for the simple reason that the interface is the most easy to work with.

Allan B.

If you are the type of person who shreds paper documents to protect your credit card numbers and bank statements, but leaves this stuff readily available on your computer, then you need to go the extra step to secure your information. For Mac users, ShredIt X provides that extra step.

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Again, thank you for your very quick and excellent response. Best regards to you and your company.

Gene S.

No prizes for guessing this’s my favorite VCD player. While QuickTime player is free, it uses twice the RAM of MacVCD, opens sluggishly [sic] and doesn’t do half the VCD stuff MacVCD does. MacVCD is an elegant and mature product which will play MPEG-1 better than QuickTime Player…

Remy Davison

Your quick response has made quite an impression upon me – that is EXCELLENT support! I look forward to doing business with your company in the future.

jpf

That was it! Thank you so much for your help.
You guys are amazing. When one contacts a support department one fantasizes that they are working furiously to diagnose and resolve one’s problem. Most of the time it seems not to be the case. This time, with you, it really felt like my challenge was yours.
Thank you also for your prompt help. I really appreciate it.

G. A. Higuera

Fantastic! Works great! Problem solved! I’ve never seen such great tech support. Thanks again.

gm

Mireth Technology is a Canadian company, located out in Richmond, BC. They have a long history of making excellent software for Macintosh, all the way back to Mac OS 7.

MaUse DoubleClick

[MacVCD] Thank you, thank you, thank you for your site. I can now play my VCD on my mac mini.
Love you guys. Cheers,

Lynley K.

I ran the demo and am really impressed with the program. I’ll certainly buy it. NetShred is a terrific application.

Ken A.

Thank you for your help. You helped me out a lot. I’m such a idiot. That is so easy and sweet, you rock!” Peace,

Roxanne H.

Thank you so much. My NetShred works fine …. I love that sense of security.

da

Very impressive! Thank you so much for your speedy service.

Philip B.

I purchased a copy of ShredIt X, and I have really enjoyed it. As with any power tool, you have to be careful with it, but as far as I can tell it does what it is supposed to do.

I appreciate all of the time you have spent in helping me…More companies should take lessons from you guys.

jw

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All About VCD on Mac and Windows

What is a VCD?

A Video CD (VCD) is a video format that uses ordinary recordable CD media to store movies instead of using a DVD or a VHS tape. VCDs use the MPEG-1 file format, so you get about 60 minutes of video on a CD, with about the same quality of playback as a VHS tape.

How to Play VCD on Mac

VCDs can be played in almost anything, including: both Windows and Macintosh computers, with VCD Player software VCD player hardware a DVD player many video game machines (consult your owner’s manual) VCDs are fairly platform-independent and easily played by most people with their existing hardware. When we first developed our player, MacVCD X, we were the only player that supported the VCD format on Mac. When looking for a player, find one that supports automatic file chaining. VCD content is frequently stored on a number of smaller files. If your player doesn’t automatically find, load and play them for you in sequence, you’ll have to find each file yourself and press play – very annoying, especially in the middle of an exciting action sequence.

How to Play a VCD using QuickTime Player (Mac)

QuickTime Player will play a Video CD (VCD), but doesn’t recognize the VCD format, so it will not find the video files on the disk and play them in order. You have to find each of the videos files for it and then open them. To play a VCD with QuickTime Player:

Launch QuickTime Player.

Insert the VCD in the CD Drive.

From the menu bar, open the MPEGAV folder on the VCD you want to play (File>Open File>”Video CD” Name>MPEGAV

Select the first file and click the “Open” button. On the Player window, click the play button (>).

Adjust the screen size. For full screen playback, upgrade to QuickTime Player Pro ($29.99).

When QTP has played the file, open the MPEGAV folder again, open the next file and click the play button. Repeat this step until you have played the entire movie.

How to Play a VCD using MacVCD Video Player (Mac)

MacVCD video Player will play Video CD (VCD), and it recognizes the VCD format, so it will find the video files on the disk, chain them together and play them. To play a VCD with MacVCD Video Player:

Adjust the screen size. When it’s finished, the VCD will automatically eject. Insert the next VCD.

How to Play a VCD using Windows Media Player (Windows)

A newer version of Windows Media Player recognizes the Video CD (VCD) format, finds the video files on the disk and plays them in order. With an older version of Windows Media Player, you have to find each of the videos files for it and then open them.

Launch Windows Media Player.

Insert the VCD in to the CD Drive.

From the menu bar, select the VCD you want to play.

If it doesn’t begin playing automatically, press the Play (>) button.

Adjust the screen size.

(Using an older version of Windows Media Player): When WMP has played the file, open the MPEGAV folder again, open the next file and click the play button. Repeat this step until you have played the entire movie.

Other Players

Play a VCD on a DVD Player
To Play a VCD, or an XVCD in a DVD player, treat it just like you would a DVD. Although most new DVD players support VCD, fewer support XVCD. You can check a player’s compatibility with these formats at VideoHelp.com – DVD Player Compatibility List

How to Convert video to VCD on Mac

To make a VCD, you need to

Convert the video files from their current format to VCD

Create the disk image

Burn the disc

When looking for software, make sure you get both converter software and burner software.